Throughout
our history, Americans have been inspired by many patriotic slogans
such as “I have not yet begun to fight,” or “I only
regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” or “Remember
the Alamo.” I don’t believe the nation will find much inspiration
in the Obama Administrations new one: “Remember the Yugo!”

Barack
Obama promised the “nation of change,” “We cannot,
must not, and we will not let our auto industry simply vanish.”
Nope. He has other plans. He’s going to build Yugos. Well, Obama
is too clever to actually say that, but Yugos will certainly be the
result of the anticipated federal take-over of the American auto industry.

Americans
should all remember the Yugo- the pride of communist Yugoslavia –
the first commie car to endanger American highways back in the 1980’s.
Small, affordable and easy on gas- the perfect modern car for our current
economic and environmental crisis that the Obama Administration is hell-bent
on perpetuating, regardless of economic or scientific fact.

Of
course, most Yugos only ran long enough to get off the lot and into
the driveway. Those lucky enough to drive them further just had to keep
a bucket in the back seat for emergencies - when it was necessary to
stop and pick up the parts that flew off when their Yugo hit a pot hole.
In short, the Yugo was an international joke because it certainly did
showcase the skills of communist workers in an industry controlled by
communist bureaucrats.

Now,
in the United States, where the car for the masses was born from the
genius of Henry Ford’s free market assembly line, Barack Obama
and the Democrat Congress have declared themselves the saviors of the
American auto industry. They know what Americans need best! They know
how to get Americans buying American cars and get the economy going
again.

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Speaker
of the House Nancy Pelosi (an auto-making genius) says Americans should
drive smaller, more efficient vehicles. And she has the power to pass
laws to make us do it – or at least the power to pass laws to
make sure Chrysler and GM can only build the cars that Washington wants.
And all Nancy and her gang of thugs in Congress have to do is pass stricter
emission laws and even Ford, which hasn’t taken the Federal candy,
will have to comply. And that saves the auto industry – how?

The
whole point of the federal takeover of the auto industry, of course,
is to enforce “climate change” restrictions on the industry.
The code word is “cleaner” cars. That really means eliminating
CO2 emissions to protect us from global warming. And it will be so much
more efficient for government to dictate it directly to an industry
it now owns than trying to argue with the pesky industry professionals
who keep talking about what the buying public wants. Don’t they
understand there is a crisis here?

There
are, of course, three problems with that plan for the auto industry.
First, since the 1970s, the federal government has been dictating emission
standards, setting the bar higher and higher until today, American cars
literally are so clean that they emit nearly zero pollution, and they
can’t get any cleaner or more efficient. Second, the only way
for cars to emit less CO2 is for cars to use less carbon-based fuel,
and that doesn’t exist. And need we say it again, science is showing
more and more evidence that there is no man-made global warming, so
no matter how clean the car is made to run, it won’t make any
difference and the regulations are completely unnecessary. Third, the
American buying public doesn’t want the pesky little cars and
won’t buy them. Detroit had better be very worried.

Obama’s
scheme is not the first time government has tried dictating small cars
to the American public. Back in the 1970s, as a result of Jimmy Carter’s
man-made oil shortage, mandates were put out for smaller, more efficient
Detroit cars. Remember the Pinto? As a result, all cars got smaller
– even Cadillacs. Americans simply couldn’t squeeze their
families into the things.

That’s
when the environmentalists’ nightmare began. To get around the
hated smaller cars, Americans started buying Sports Utility Vehicles
(SUVs). Back then they were simply called trucks. The old fashioned,
market-based Detroit automakers knew a good customer when the saw one
and they started improving the trucks to be more family oriented. And
the SUV revolution was on.

Today,
almost every American family has one. And the government environmentalists
hate it. They have been inventing rules and regulations ever since to
try to get Americans out of the hated SUVs. They have tried to raise
gas prices to make them unusable- didn’t work. They have offered
tax incentives to get us to abandon them – didn’t work.
So now they have just taken over Detroit. Now they will just dictate
the cars Detroit can make.

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Get
ready America. The Corvette, Chevy Camaro, Dodge Viper, Dodge Challenger
R/T, Mustang, Cadillac CTS and the Hummer are all on the Obama chopping
block – even though that’s what Americans want to buy. It
doesn’t matter anymore. We now have government-controlled industry
dictated by those who do everything through political agenda. They have
a vision and it looks a lot like the Yugo.

Get
ready America. The Corvette, Chevy Camaro, Dodge Viper, Dodge Challenger
R/T, Mustang, Cadillac CTS and the Hummer are all on the Obama chopping
block – even though that’s what Americans want to buy. It
doesn’t matter anymore.